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  • Devizes boxing club pleased as punch with grant

    A £50,000 grant from Sport England will help Devizes Boxing Club to improve its facilities and expand. The club has gone from strength to strength since it was formed in November 2009 and chairman Paul Wilkins said the award of the grant was a

  • Big name authors to appear at Malmesbury history festival

    A stellar line up of authors, including Man Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel and TV historian Dan Snow, will appearing in Malmesbury for its popular History Weekend. Organised by BBC History Magazine, tickets will go on sale on Tuesday for the

  • Bowood’s gardens open early

    Bowood's famous rhododendron garden opened last week, earlier than it was scheduled to. The garden opened on Thursday, April 17, and Lord Lansdowne, who does much of the gardening himself, said several flowers are already in bloom, including magnolia

  • Marlborough scout stalwart is surprised at service award

    Scout volunteer Peter Povey is getting ready to head to Windsor Castle after being awarded the Bar to the Silver Acorn in recognition of his service. The 68-year-old, of Barrow Close, in Marlborough, is the district chairman of the North East Wiltshire

  • Calne clothes business owner excited to open her first shop

    Calne’s mayor Mercy Baggs opened a new shop in town last week, offering personalised T-shirts, sweatshirts, and school uniforms. The new shop, called With Style, opened on April 14 after taking over premises on Church Street once used by Masquerade

  • M4 reopens after crash

    The M4 has reopened after an earlier crash closed the road in both directions. Both eastbound and westbound carriageways were closed between J16 Swindon West and J17 Chippenham over the lunch period. Wiltshire Police have said five vehicles

  • Ex-Chippenham pupil is victor in law tournament

    A former pupil at Chippenham’s Sheldon School who moved to America was part of the winning team at the Erie County mock trial tournament. Georgia Hulbert, who lived in Garth Close in Cepen Park North, Chippenham, until 18 months ago and was a member

  • BOXING: Emeralds put on a show for McMillan

    FORMER WBO world featherweight champion Colin ‘Sweet C’ McMillan was guest at the first show of 2014 for Chippenham’s Emeralds at the West End club. McMillan, also the British and Commonwealth champion, was present for a total of 11 bouts on the

  • JUDO: Funds are Florida key for Jemima

    DEVIZES judo ace Jemima Duxberry is hoping local businesses will help fund her bid to reach this year’s World Junior Championships in Miami. The 19-year-old Great Britain international is aiming to raise around £4000 by May 30 to fund her second-ever

  • Riders come bearing eggs

    A rally of scooters delivered nearly 80 chocolate eggs from Chippenham to hospitalised children in Bath in memory of five-year-old Emerton Chisholm-Joyce for the second time on Good Friday. Hundreds of riders took part in the 16-mile journey ride

  • Live news: April 25

    6:16pm Great time on the Devizes to Westminster International Canoe event last weekend - and this time we made it to the... http://t.co/Nhdg8q6a02 — @OlympianBen 25 April 2014

  • Wiltshire reports higher than average fall in crime

    Crime in Wiltshire has fallen by 4.7 per cent, which means 1,600 fewer victims of crime, according to latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). In England's 38 forces as a whole there is a 3.4 per cent reduction in overall crime

  • Volunteer dedicates herself to holiday club

    A volunteer who helps gives children with special needs a holiday has been given a High Sheriff award for devoting her time to help others. Despite suffering from a virulent and persistent form of epilepsy since the age of 22, Carole Kyte, now

  • Head of St John's School, Marlborough, to retire

    The head of St John’s School, Marlborough, Dr Patrick Hazlewood, announced today that he will be retiring from the post in April next year. Staff were informed of Dr Hazlewood’s retirement this morning and an email has been sent out to parents.

  • Salute to two RAF Seagry heroes

    Spitfire pilots who crashed in a Wiltshire village during the Second World War are to be remembered with a lasting memorial. Plans are under way to install a £1,500 stone marker and plaque to remember the two young RAF pilots who died during a

  • Chippenham teenager is the winner as match raises £2,500

    Hundreds of people pitched in to support Chippenham schoolboy Ben Conolly at a football match on Tuesday. Sixteen-year-old Ben has no feeling from the chest down after developing a tumour on his spinal cord. Four of Ben’s friends, two from

  • CHIPPENHAM TOWN: Collier plotting course

    MARK Collier says that he has already begun to lay the foundations for his Chippen-ham Town rebuild. The Bluebirds boss, who takes his side into their final game of the season at St Neots Town on Saturday, is planning to reshape his squad this

  • Young Chippenham survivor has day as a superhero

    Young cancer survivor Joshua Flynn had his wish come true when he met his hero Iron Man. Five-year-old Joshua, who was diagnosed with a malignant tumour on his kidney a week before his fourth birthday, did not stop smiling for a week after meeting